FROM FIRST MANASSAS (BULL RUN) AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS.THOUGH MOST WERE ANONYMOUS, THE NAMES OF 88 OF THE DEAD ARELISTED BELOW AS THEY APPEAR IN CEMETERY RECORDS.

THIS MARKER WAS PLACED IN 2002 AT THE REQUEST OF THE MILITARY ORDEROF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES TO REMEMBER THEIR FAITHFUL SERVICE."

The above marker refers to one of the forgotten chapters of Civil War Richmond: the identity and fate of hundreds of Union Army prisoners, who were buried near Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery in the first two years of that war.

Original research over the last two decades has recovered information that had been lost for more than a century: the soldiers' names, their units, where and how they died, the precise location of their original burial -- and their true final resting place.

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